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Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday February 19, 1953 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 45
First Batch Of Sewer Bills
To Be Mailed Next Week;
Charge On Estimated Basis
Borough Manager Issues
Explanation To Avoid |
Misunderstandings |
The first sewerage bills in the
history of the borough will be
mailed to local consumers next
week, Borough Manager Orville
Over announced today. |
And the impact of receiving
a relatively double bill is ex- j
pected to be so great that the
Borough Manager accompanied
the announcement with a long
explanation. i
First, the bill for the 1st quar­ter
will be an estimated one
based upon the water consump- |
tion during the first quarter of
1952. j
Secondly, the amount due is
the last figure on the card, the
figure with a dot near it.
Third, inasmuch as both
water and sewerage cost will
be estimated, an adjustment
will be made when meters are
actually read on June 1.
A total of 249 properties
here now are using the sewer­age
disposal plant and will re­ceive
the first batch of sewer
bills. Connections are being
made at a rate of 80 per month,
and keeping well ahead of the
borough’s schedule upon which
the financing of the project is
based.
Warwick Red
Cross Names
Claude Young
Mrs. Isaac Stoner And
Fred Nies To Be j
Captains
The Warwick Township Dis­trict
for the American Red
Cross campaign has been or­ganized.
The campaign will begin
March 2nd and continue through
March 15th.
The chairman for this year’s
campaign is Claude Young, with
Captains Mrs. Isaac Stoner and
Fred Nies assisting.
The following solicitors will
also help: Miss Fay Ober, Miss
Miriam Snavely, Miss Grace
Mease, Mrs. Vincent Johnson,
Mrs. Richard Bomberger, Mrs.
John Grube, Mrs. Myron Ruth,
Harlan Weit, Eugene Gamer,
Clifford Steely, Miss Geraldine
Gehman, Miss Shirley Gehman,
Mrs. Arthur Bushong, J. C.
Brubaker and Edwin P. Hilton.
The theme for this year’s
campaign is “What Are You
Doing About Blood for the Men
In Korea?” A donation to the
Red Cross will help save the
lives of many wounded service
men.
The Red Cross has many other
services which it is rendering to
the servicemen of today. It is
also caring for «the people in
the flooded areas and the peo­ple
who lose their homes
through fire. It also has other
services-which are too numerous
to mention. Your donations will
be greatly appreciated.
TO SPEAK HERE
Rev. M. Guy West
Rev. West To
Give Brethren
Revival Talks
York Pastor Will Conduct
Series Of Meetings
In Local Church
Rev. Guy M. West, pastor of
the First Church of the Breth­ren/
York, Pa., will be the guest
preacher in a series of revival
meetings to be held in the
Church of the Brethren, Lititz,
February 22 to March 1. The
services will begin at 7:30 each
List Workers
For Hearing
Center Drive
Mrs. Stengel Names Mrs.'
D. Bern Angstadt To !
Chairmanship
Mrs. Avis Stengel, this bor- !
ough, chairman of the Hearing
Center Association, announced i
that from Feb. 16 through April j
1, virtually every person in the
borough v/ho has a telephone .
will be called by members of ;
the Telephone Committee of the
j Hearing Center.
Chairman of the borough
committee is Mrs. D. Bern Ang- j
stadt, 341 N. Broad St. i
Local women who will join i
in conducting the telephone so- i
licitation include: |
Mrs. F. K. Cassel, Mrs. E. C. I
Bertolet, Mrs. Norman Badorf, j Inspection—Borough Fire Chief Raymond
Mrs. Charles Wagaman, Mrs. j Runk, front foreground, checks the new aux-
Louis Huebner, Mrs. Benjamin | iliary truck of the fire department to determine
Groff, Mrs. Vernon Ranck, and 1 whether it meets with specifications. Other
Mrs. Raymond Herr. identifiable firemen shown include John Smith,
Mrs. Richard Zartman, Mrs.
Carl Risser, Mrs. Henry Gibbel,
Mrs. George Searles, Mrs. Rich­ard
Nelson, Mrs. Norman Ha-becker,
Miss Myrtle Eckert,
Mrs. William Miller and Mrs.
Eugene Stauffer, Miss Anna K. j * 1 C ■
Miller and Mrs. G. Marlin 11. l lT * | O C O U l S
Spaid and Mrs. Barton Sharp. | .
Other workers are being ask- __ , . ,,
ed to cooperate and their names ' T J +he ¿ egulai; of
will be available next week, 1 ^ Woman s Cl? * ™s held
Mrs. Stengel said. | Monday evening at the General
The purpose of the Hearing 1 Sutter Hotel at whlch tune *
GETTING THE ONCE-OVER Farmers Bank Purchases
Martin Property On Broad St.
Plan To Enlarge Bank Bldg.
i About 250 Attend
j Family Night Fete
! About 250 persons attended
| the Family Picnic Tuesday night
! at the Moravian Church.
| A chicken corn soup supper
| was served and after the supper
two Pennsylvania State Police-
I men presented their famous
| trained dogs in an obedience
I program.
| The affair was in charge of
[ Ben Forrest, and Bishop Carl
I J. Helmich pronounced the
benediction.
far right, and to the left just outside the
fire house are Dan Garner, Clair Meiskey,
Lester Haines, Ollie Reed and Ted Stauffer, Sr.
Parked behind the new apparatus is the former
auxiliary truck of the company.
Woman’s Club
Gives $25 To
Center Association is to raise
funds for the maintenance of
the Hearing Conservation Cen­ter,
located at 427 North Duke
Street, in Lancaster, which was
organized in November of 1946
and which until January 1 of
this year worked 'primarily in
was voted to donate $25.00 to
the Girl Scouts for Day Camp.
It was announced that member­ship
would be open from Feb.
19 to April 1, 1953.
Mrs. Barton Sharp, president;
presided at the business meet­ing.
The Collect was read by
Mrs. the area of speech and hearing , , , John Badorf and hostesses,
therapy for hearing-handicapped *or tke 7 “ mgJ.?,re Mra‘ Earl
week night, and at 7:00 P-m. ¡ children of school age .Now that
on Sundays.
Rev. West is one of the ablest
preachers of his denomination.
As a speaker he is dynamic, ar­resting,
fascinating, and is much
sought after as a special preach- | Meeting Tonight
er for varied occasions. He is a j -------■—
graduate of Bridgewater Col- j The Lititz P.T.A. will hold its
the Department of Public In-
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Lititz PTA Plans
Reist and Mrs. William Oehme.
The program committee pre­sented
a panorama of gowns
dating over a period of 150
New, White Apparatus
Greeted With Enthusiasm
By Local Firefighters
Rolling Hills
Scouts Plan
Big Festival
International Flavor Is To
Be Theme Of Program
For Feb. 27
The Brownie, Intermediate
and Senior Troops of the Roll­ing
Hills Neighborhood will
hold a Juliette Lowe Interna-
New Funeral
Home Planned
By Beck Bros.
Purchase Muth Property
On South Broad
Street
Dwelling Ultimately To Be
Razed; To Use Plot
For Parking
The purchase of the property
on Broad Street formerly owned
by Dr. D. C. Martin* was an­nounced
this week by the Farm­ers
National Bank.
The property has been pur­chased
as a part of a plan to
utimately increase the size of
the present bank building and
to provide additional space for
parking, Paul Bomberger, cash­ier
of the bank, announced in
behalf of the board of directors.
For the present the Martin
property will be rented. Ulti­mately,
however, the building
will be razed.
Plans for completely modern­izing
the interior of the bank
were announced last year when
the property to the east of the
bank building on Main Street
was purchased and the present
parking lot established.
Acquisition of the Martin
property now will permit the
bank building to be added to
Plans to enlarge their funer- on th? rear }° ?™vide needed
al parlor at a new location room for the bank’s over-crowd-were
announced this week by *?. bookkeeping department.
Beck Bros., morticians and fur- ™ls ln turn wlU greatly reduce
niture dealers. the Slze of the present parku*
It was announced jointly by
the funeral establishment and
Glistening white and equip­ped
with many new innovations,
Lititz’ new fire apparatus made
a big hit with several hundred . .
local firemen when it was re- Mrs. William Muth family, that
ceived at the firehouse Saturday
afternoon.
Built at a cost of slightly
more than $9,000, the new ap­paratus
will fill a long felt need
by local fire-fighters. It will re­place
the black ^quad wagon.
The first all-white apparatus
to be added to the local equip­ment,
the truck made quite a
contrast to the other pieces of
equipment. Some firemen were
the parlors will be moved to a
new location as the result of a
real estate transaction recently.
Abe Beck, spokesman for the
firm, said the Muth family con­sented
to the sale of the prop­erty
located on S. Broad St.
The legal transaction has been
completed, he said, but there
will be no immediate change in
the operation of the parlors.
It is planned, Beck said, to
years with the history and de- itional Festival Feb. 2? at 7
scription of each by Miss Doro- ;.
thy Habecker, and music was |
p.m.
in the high school gym.
provi.d. ed, b, y t,,h e Club Chorus, ,1 Parents of sco_u_ts .and friends und, er t,,h e d,.i rect.i. on ,o f Missa r, e invitedT _to_ _a_t tend, _ .
O ----------- — I x n e L a m * . X " . JL W i l l I I U I U i t s T W I V r + lo • ¡ ¡V i r o l» * F l n u r o r a f r o n t f o ' J u l i e t t e L O W e S t a r t e d t h e f i r s t Vleagieo, nBHriHdngietwv aStnerim, nVi a.M, oawn dW oa f F.e b„ru ary m, ,e et.i ng. thi,s, even. ing,, ! mentts for the b! ri-dj a|l g„ owns were ¿Girl Scout Troop in Savannah,
S T r l l ’ at g:0° oclock m the sch°o1 i donated by Clyde Hendricks.
B’e fore 'm ovi. ng to York i. n auTdihtoe rpiuromg.r am will feature Miss | heTldh eM anrecxht 16m eaett in8 g 0>wcliolcl k bine
Ga., in 1912. After her death
the Juliette Lowe World Friend­ship
Fund was initiated so that
September, 1952, Rev. West had Susan Sensenig, principal of the
served as pastor of the Church Nathan Schaffer School, Man-of
the Brethren, Bridgewater, heim Township School District.
Va.; the Central Church of the Miss Sensenig is also the presi-
Brethren, Roanoke, Va.; and the dent of the Lancaster County
Church of the Brethren, Union- Chapter of the National Reading
town, Pa. Rev. West has con­ducted
very successful revival
meetings in many of the states.
Some of Rev. West’s subjects
are: “The Conversion of the
Church,” “Workers Together
With God,” “According to Your
Faith,” “Superior Righteous­ness,”
“What Makes a Church
Grow,” “The Choice of Alle­giance,”
“This is Our Heritage,”
and “Resources of the Christian
Faith.”
School Teachers
Out- With Illness
Mrs. Mary R. Luck, teacher
of French and English in the
Senior High School, was sick
this week. Mrs. Chryst Groff, of
Lancaster RD3, substituted for
her.
“Crossroads of America,” a
film, was shown in assembly in
the high school auditorium on
Thursday. It depicted the Amer­ican
way of life, and was shown
through the courtesy of the
Pennsylvania Power and Light
Company. A lecture on “Liquid
Air” will be presented in as­sembly
on Tuesday, Feb. 24th
at 1:00 p.m.
Sickness in the public schools
seems to be abating. Monday
there were 97 absentees com­pared
to 132 and 120 last week.
The children of grades one to
seven inclusive, had their pic­tures
taken on Tuesday, and
grades eight to twelve on Wed­nesday.
Post Office Will
Be Closed Monday
In order to give post office
employees a day’s vacation,
Washington’s Birthday will be
observed next Monday, Post­master
Robert Pfautz said.
There will be no mail deliv­ery
on that day other than spe­cial
delivery mail. The post
office lobby will be open all
day, and window service - will
be available until 9 a.m.
Improvement Council. Her topic
will be “Newer Teaching Meth­ods
Used Today.” A discussion
period will follow.
t.h. e G„ enera,l „S u,t.t er THT o,t e.l a,t smceofuitt s ofnrcoem all couanntdri es mi®gthet
which time the public is cordial- j better world relations
lvy invite,d, ,t,o hear-r , Dr. M, illard.1 i P_r oceed, s f.r om next, F_ ri.d, ay’,s E. and’(f. est..i va,l wil„l g„o to. th..i.s wor.?thy
fund.
The 13 troops of the Neigh­borhood
will each present a
Gladfelter, Provost and
Vice-President of Temple Uni­versity,
speak on the subject
“This Day of Change.”
Sophomore Dance
Saturday Night
Cast Chosen
For Jr. Play
song and dance or skit for the
program, representative of var­ious
foreign nations.
Listed on the program are
Brownie Troop 17, Hawaii;
j Troop 91, Holland; Troop 215,
I Germany. Intermediate Troop
The Sophomore Class of the 1 The cast for “Strictly Form- j 199, Ireland; Troop 122, Amer-
High School will sponsor a I al”. a three-act comedy to be ica; Troop 146, China; Troop
dance at the school gym this presented by the Junior Class of , 87, Mexico; Troop 88, Peru;
Saturday evening.
A floor show featuring class
members will be presented, and
proceeds will be used for fur­ther
class activities. Tickets are
40 cents and may be purchased
Lititz High School, has been a n -! Troop 174, Denmark; Troop 15,
nounced. The play will be pre- Scotland; Brownie Troops 16
sen ted Thursday and Friday, and 163, France. Senior Troop
March 5 and 6 at 8 p.m., in the 118 is in charge of programs.
High School auditorium. j Mrs. Edwin Stroble and Mrs.
The cast includes the follow- Charles Wagaman are co-chair-at
the gym or from any class *n8; men for the affair,
member. | Jane Cutler, Elaine Longe- 1 The Girl Scout Cookie Sale
■ ; necker; Cindy Carson, Carol is well underway, chairmen re-
INJURED IN FALL Losensky; Sally, Mary Ann ported, and cookies will be de-
---- _ — Wagner; Marcia, Nancy Duss- livered this week. It was also
Mrs. Viola McKean, Moravian “ ger: ^rs. Cutter, Mary Ellen announced that a fat collection
Home fell Saturday and suf-1 Rlsser; Mr- Cutler, John Ami- will be made in March, and
fered a cracked pelvis’ bone. She don; Agnes, Mary Ann Temple- housewives are asked to save
r ( P / » « f m m U n r t n 1 A \ J 1. ' i!.l ill It. _ _ will be confined to Lancaster
General Hospital for several
weeks.
(Continued on Page 10) , their fat until then.
so impressed by the new appear- j renovate the first floor of the
ance that the suggestion was, 2 Vz story brick dwelling on
made that both pieces of equip- | Broad Street, into a modem
ment be painted white instead
of the usual fire company red.
The new apparatus includes a
booster pump with a capacity
of 200 gallons per minute; a
portable pump with an addition­al
capacity of 250 gallons per
parlor to conduct funeral ser­vices,
A driveway is also planned
for easy access to the proposed
home for patrons.
On the second floor an apart-minute;
a generator of a 1500-1 me*?t ke constructed, Beck
watt capacity for two flood
lights and several large spot
lights.
One of the most important
features of the new apparatus
is a 400-gallon booster water
tank, which should prove very
valuable in fighting rural fires.
A portable cutting torch and
four gas masks also are includ­ed
in the great amount of equip­ment
carried by the truck, in
addition to 500 feet of one and
one-half inch hose.
The apparatus will be form­ally
accepted at the next meet­ing
of the company, next Wed­nesday
evening. Disposal also
will be made at that time of the
squad truck.
RETURNS FROM KOREA
After spending considerable
time in Korea, Donald Coble,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W.
Coble, 501 Spruce Street, this
borough, arrived home Tuesday
evening.
said, thereby centralizing the
entire operations of the parlors.
The steadily increasing furni­ture
business and burial service
to the public in recent years has
considerably crowded their pres­ent
facilities.
Once the renovation job is
complete, the furniture store
will be conducted at its present
The Martin property includes
a two and one-half story frame
dwelling of unusual architectur­al
design which has made it a
landmark of the local business
section for years. It was occu­pied
for many years as a home
and office by Dr. Martin. The
property also includes a two
story garage, also to be razed.
Terms of the sale were not
made public.^____
Gala Opening
Of.Al Frey’s
New Showroom
Public Invited To “Look”
At Modern New Place
Of Business
Residents in and near the
borough are invited this Friday
and Saturday to attend the
“Grand Opening” of Alvin M.
Frey’s new electrical store.
The store, set off by hand­some
large plate glass windows
on the corner bordering Broad
,l ocat..i on, and, wi..t.h grea.t er f_l oor. and bKulsiinnee sSs trheee tsc, owndiUuc treeds ume tor
and display space. ! y years Jugt am)SS ^
By moving the funeral parlors I street from the new building,
to the proposed place, Beck! Residents are invited to see
said, the firm will be able to
provide ample parking space
for funeral cortege vehicles as
well as for persons attending
viewings.
The changeover, he said, will1
go into effect probably by the \
end of the summer. I
The Muth family sold the | C a m m a m
dWelling after the purchase of | v J C l l I l v IH k jC l I C O
a home close to their coal and
lumber business in the east end
of the borough, toward Roths-ville.
how the store looks from the
inside, after spending much
time peering into the nicely
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Begin Lenten
Sermon Series
At St. Luke’s
Major Bob Peiffer Kept Busy
With Duties Of New Post
! Trinity Brotherhood
! Hears Rev. Harwick
Prayer Service At.
St. Paul's Friday
Major Robert D. Peiffer, now
stationed at Lathrop, California,
is really living a mighty busy
life.
In fact the local veteral, who
is a son of Mr! and Mrs. John
L. Peiffer, of East Main Street,
has assumed enough duties to
keep an entire staff busily en­gaged,
according to a clipping
received here this week from
California.
The clipping follows:
NO IDLE HOURS
FOR NEW OFFICER
When Maj. Robert D. Peiffer
took over recently at San An-
Rev. Ray Harwick spoke to The Annual Community
| members of the Trinity E. C. World Day of Prayer service
! Brotherhood at their meeting conducted by Jerusalem E. & R.
— ---- ¡held in the church social room, Church, Penryn, and St. Paul’s
tonio General Depot as adjutant, on Monday evening. The topic Lutheran Church, Penryn, will
relieving Maj. John J. O’Con- of his address was “If the Pews be held on Friday night, Febru-nell
(who has transferred to Could Talk.” ary 20, in St. Paul’s Church, at
Sharpe General Depot, Lathrop, I Following Rev. Harwick’s ad- 7:30. The public is invited to
Calif.), he really walked into dress, refreshments were served attend.
a job v j and members participated in -----------^ -----------
In addition to routine adju- ! various games. Harold Swisher BIRD CLUB PLANS
tant duties, he is: ■is president of the Brotherhood, MEETING TUESDAY
Life Insurance Classification and introduced the speaker.
Officer, Postal Officer, Recruit-! ~ ! The Lititz Bird Club will meet
ing Officer, Soldier Voting Offi- j N O T I C E ! Tuesday, Feb. 24th, at 8 p.m.,
cer, Troop Information and Edu- j ——— in the Nature Den of the Recre-cation
Officer, Acting Legal I The Dental Office of Dr. How- ation Center.
Assistance Officer, Certifying ard B. Minnich, 101 S. Broad Club trips will be planned
Officer, Custodian of Serial St., will be closed from Monday, and a color slide show will be
Documents, and Overseas Pro- February 16th to Monday, presented. The meeting is open
cessing Officer. March 2nd. to members and the public alike.
Sports Club To Be Asked
To Play In Invitational
Basketball Tournament
The Lititz Sports Club basket­ball
team will be one of Lan­caster
County's Class A ranked
teams asked to participate in
the county’s first Invitational
Gold Medal - Basketball Tourna­ment.
Hairy Hampilos, Lancaster
city promoter said the team
will be asked to join the play­offs
to determine the best Class
A team in the county, as well
as to select a Lancaster area
representative team for district
competition. .
The playoffs have been con­ducted
for over 30 years and
culminate with a selection of
an All-American Amateur Bas­ketball
Team by qualified
judges.
On Sunday morning, the Firat
Sunday in Lent, the pastor at
jSt. Luke’s Church, Rev. Ray L
! Harwick, will begin a Lenten
' series of sermons which will
¡continue through the six Sun-i
days in Lent. All the sermons
I are based on the Beatitudes,
i using the theme: “Keys to the
™ ¡Kingdom”. The first sermon is
Hampilos said the local play- j entitled, “Blessed Are the Poor
offs, slated for the end of next in Spirit.”
month, will become part of the j The Sunday evening Bible
nationwide amateur set-up. Study Group will meet early
He said it offers an oppor-1 this week, each one bringing a
tunity to teams and individual j covered dish for a fellowship
players as well to see how they ¡luncheon and study, beginning
stack up against competition I at 5:45 p.m., Sunday,
on a state-wide and a nation- J At 7:00 p.m., Sunday, lb s.
wide level. ¡Carl Sipple, Missionary to Ja-
A tournament champion will pan, currently home on fur-be
crowned, Hampilos said, and lough, will speak. The public is
from the teams playing, an all- ! invited to attend,
star squad, will be selected to ' On Monday night the Youth
represent the Lancaster district Fellowship of St. Luke’s Church
in further playoffs. ¡will begin a special Lenten
Team and individual champs, study and work project center»
and the second and third place ing around the work of mi*»
teams will be ¿iven trophies sions in South America. A set
and gold, silver and bronze of slides, “Getting Better Ac-medals.
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